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Chapter 3 1 Chapter 1: Breaking the Ice Breaking the Ice WORD evaluate creative improvisation side coaching focal point simultaneous BANK “freeze” Watch for these valuable words wherever you see the word bank icon. spontaneous BRAIN TEASERS (1) What is the difference between existing and living? (2) What are the eight rules for the acting games? CUE SHEET You are breathing and moving. But are you alive? Are you alive to the world inside of you? The world around you? The world beyond you? Or do you fit the category of those who feel they are a breathing corpse, a dull robot secluded in a self-made coffin? Living is quite different from existing. Really to live during your life, to be really happy and successful requires two qualities: (1) An ability to respond creatively—to yourself and your environment. (2) An ability to communicate with others—to share ideas and feelings. Creative Communication—Hardcover Student Edition sampler
Unit 1: Creative Theatre 4 The exercises, games, and improvisations in this drama section will help you achieve the above two qualities of total awareness and response, developing a creative and communicative You. The assignments will mainly be improvisations where you make up action and words on the spur-of-the-moment in order to achieve the game’s goal. As in any game, there are certain ground rules that the participants—you, your classmates, and your teacher—must accept. Here they are: (1) Work toward the focal point. In each improvisation you will have a specific focal point or goal on which to concentrate, allowing you to be successful at one thing at a time. All of your powers and energy must be directed toward that focal point. Your whole being should be absorbed by it. In so doing, you will solve the problem or achieve the goal. (2) Do anything you wish within the focal point and the rules. Complete freedom is yours as long as you stay within these rules and the specific goal of your activity. Don’t worry about “making a fool” of yourself. Anything goes. There is no right or wrong way to solve the acting problem. What you must strive for is an effective way—and there may be many of those. So you will want to respect what your classmates are doing, even if it is different from what you are doing. In turn, they will respect your activity. Remember, everyone has his or her own special way. Do your own thing; do not copy others. If what you are doing works well within the rules, continue. If not, change it. (3) Believe what you are doing—and do it in a believable way. Even if you are seeing imaginary things, believe them. Work toward truth in every situation. (4) Create a spirit of working together. Most of the improvisations must be done as a group, working in harmony. You are not competing with each other, but contributing in a stimulating way to the solution of the problem. Even the audience is part of the experience, for you must share with them if communication is to take place. Accept your responsibility as a valuable group member. If you make wisecracks or clown or manipulate others, you are hindering, not helping the group. Remember, these activities are not “kid stuff.” These same games and improvisations are used in professional acting courses. (5) Respond to side coaching. Your teacher will serve as a guide or director, sometimes being part of the acting group and sometimes being part of the audience. When seeing your needs or those of the scene, your teacher will “side coach” you with a voice command that you are to obey. When you hear side coaching, don’t stop what you are doing. Just listen to what is being said and keep on with the scene, adjusting to the command. In side coaching, your teacher is not suggesting that you are doing something good or bad, but rather is helping you to develop and communicate the specific thing you are doing. Side coaching is completely spontaneous, arising from what is going on at that moment. Examples are, “Really see the apple tree. Feel the bark, its roughness. Touch the smooth leaves. Reach high for the fruit.” “Share your voice with us.” “Feel with your knees, your toes, your whole body.” “Concentrate on your focal point.” “Talk to each other. Pursue that point.” Creative Communication—Hardcover Student Edition sampler
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